Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2 (PragProg)

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Get the comprehensive, insider information you need for Rails 7.2 with the new edition of this award-winning classic.

rails72-500

Sam Ruby @rubys

with Dave Thomas @pragdave

edited by Adaobi Obi Tulton @aotulton

Rails 7.2 completely redefined what it means to produce fantastic user experiences and provides a way to achieve all the benefits of single-page applications—at a fraction of the complexity. Rails 7.2 integrated the Hotwire frameworks of Stimulus and Turbo directly as the new defaults, together with that hot newness of import maps. The result is a toolkit so powerful that it allows a single individual to create modern applications upon which they can build a competitive business. The way it used to be.

Ruby on Rails helps you produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly—you concentrate on creating the application, and Rails takes care of the details. Rails 7.2 brings many improvements, and this edition is updated to cover the new features and changes in best practices.

We start with a step-by-step walkthrough of building a real application, and in-depth chapters look at the built-in Rails features. Follow along with an extended tutorial as you write a web-based store application. Eliminate tedious configuration and housekeeping, seamlessly incorporate JavaScript, send and receive emails, manage background jobs with ActiveJob, and build real-time features using WebSockets and ActionCable. Test your applications as you write them using the built-in unit, integration, and system testing frameworks, internationalize your applications, and deploy your applications easily and securely.

Rails 1.0 was released in December 2005. This book was there from the start, and didn’t just evolve alongside Rails, it evolved with Rails. It has been developed in consultation with the Rails core team. In fact, Rails itself is tested against the code in this book.

Sam Ruby is a Rails Specialist at Fly.io, and previously was President of the
Apache Software Foundation, co-chaired the W3C HTML Working Group, and has made significant contributions to many open source projects and standards.

Dave Thomas, as one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, understands agility. As the author of Programming Ruby, he understands Ruby. And, as an active Rails developer, he knows Rails.

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Looks nice. Probably next on my list since I need to learn the latest RoR soon.

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@rubys

Wasn’t the 7.0 version of the book released just a year ago? Are there significant changes to the chapters?

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There’s some info in the book description about what has changed. @rubys Sam is tagged here in case he has anything to add about the revisions.

Anyone who bought the Rails 7 ebook from PragProg has already had the 7.2 edition added to their account (please check and contact support@prapgprog.com if you don’t see the ebook).

If you buy either version now, you get the other one automatically at no cost.

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@apsori depends on what you mean by significant. There definitely are significant changes to the Deployment chapter.

This book is aimed at people who want to learn Rails, and makes heavy use of bin/rails generate scaffold. There was sufficient change to the code that that command generates to warrant a new edition as that output changed. Additionally, the installation chapter was updated substantially due to new releases and the addition of a development dockerfile option.

If you have already learned Rails, enjoy the free book anyway. If you haven’t yet started, this is the one to start with.

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Thanks!

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